Oh, my...

[bjarvis]

Test your backups! And for god's sake, don't format data hard drives on production servers!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070320/ap_on_hi_te/lost_data_3

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[bjarvis.livejournal.com]

I'm a big believer in multiple backups, reinforced by my recent USB flash drive failure. Tracking the version of the backups, that's a bigger problem but one I'd much rather have than finding unreadable/nonexistant backups.